What is it?

This quickstart demonstrates the use of ShrinkWrap Resolver in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

With the advent of Maven and other build systems, typically thirdparty libraries and our own dependent modules are obtained from a backing software repository. In this case we supply a series of coordinates which uniquely identifies an artifact in the repository, and resolve the target files from there.

That is precisely the aim of the ShrinkWrap Resolver project; it is a Java API to obtain artifacts from a repository system.

The shrinkwrap-resolver quickstart demonstrates various use cases for ShrinkWrap Resolver. This Quickstart has 3 Test Classes that demonstrates the following Shrinkwrap use cases:

ShrinkwrapResolveGAVWithoutTransitiveDepsTest

resolve an artifact via G:A:V without transitive dependencies

return resolution result as single java.io.File

ShrinkwrapImportFromPomTest

loading pom.xml from file activating and deactivating profiles

importing dependencies of specified scope into list of artifacts to be resolved

return resolution results as a java.io.File array

ShrinkwrapResolveGAPCVCustomRepoWithoutCentralTest

resolve an artifact via G:A:P:C:V without transitive dependencies

resolve an artifact with classifer

disabling Maven Central

loading settings.xml from file (with custom repository)

return resolution results as a java.io.File array

System requirements

The application this project produces is designed to be run on Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 6.1 or later with the Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit (WFK) 2.7.

All you need to build this project is Java 6.0 (Java SDK 1.6) or later, Maven 3.0 or later.

Configure Maven

If you have not yet done so, you must Configure Maven before testing the quickstarts.

Start the JBoss EAP Server

Open a command line and navigate to the root of the JBoss EAP directory.

The following shows the command line to start the server with the default profile:

For Linux: EAP_HOME/bin/standalone.sh
For Windows: EAP_HOME\bin\standalone.bat

Run the Arquillian Tests

This quickstart provides Arquillian tests. By default, these tests are configured to be skipped as Arquillian tests require the use of a container.

NOTE: The following commands assume you have configured your Maven user settings. If you have not, you must include Maven setting arguments on the command line. See Run the Arquillian Tests for complete instructions and additional options.

Make sure you have started the JBoss EAP server as described above.

Open a command line and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.

Type the following command to run the test goal with the following profile activated:

mvn clean test -Parq-jbossas-remote

NOTE: If you use the Maven settings command line argument with this quickstart, you need to pass an additional argument to allow ShrinkWrap Resolver to function properly:

Basically, you first set the active Maven profile in project properties to be either 'arq-jbossas-managed' for running on managed server or 'arq-jbossas-remote' for running on remote server. Then, to run the tests, right click on the project or individual classes and select Run As –> JUnit Test in the context menu.

Debug the Application

If you want to debug the source code or look at the Javadocs of any library in the project, run either of the following commands to pull them into your local repository. The IDE should then detect them.